My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, andso we decided to get married. There was only one little thingbothering me. It was her beautiful younger sister. My prospectivesister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tightminiskirts, and generally was braless. She would regularly benddown when she was near me, and I always got more than a pleasantview. She never did it when she was near anyone else.

One day "little" sister called and asked me to come over to checkthe wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived, and shewhispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that shecouldn't overcome. She told me that she wanted to make love to mejust once before I got married and committed my life to hersister. Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word. Shesaid, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one lastwild fling, just come up and get me." I was stunned - frozen inshock as I watched her go up the stairs. She pulled off herpanties and threw them down the stairs at me.

I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beelinestraight to the front door. I opened the door, and headedstraight towards my car. Lo and behold, my entire future familywas standing outside, all clapping!

With tears in his eyes, my future father-in-law hugged me andsaid, "We are very happy that you have passed our little test ...we couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to thefamily."

And the moral of this story is:

Always keep your condoms in your car.

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Same s** Couples Common in the WildBy Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Staff Writer

As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?

On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-s** lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched.

According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-s** coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others.

If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn't eliminated this trait from the gene pool, since it doesn’t lead to reproduction.

It may simply be for pleasure.

"Not every sexual act has a reproductive function," said Janet Mann, a biologist at Georgetown University who studies dolphins (homosexual behavior is very common in these marine mammals). "That's true of humans and non-humans."

Some scientists have proposed that being gay may serve its own evolutionary purpose. "It could be a way that you strengthen bonds — that's one hypothesis," Mann told LiveScience. "Another is that it could be practice for heterosexual s**. Bottlenose dolphin calves mount each other a lot. That might benefit them later on."

Marlene Zuk, a biologist at the University of California, Riverside, suggested that gay individuals contribute to the gene pool of their community by nurturing their relatives’ young without diverting resources by having their own offspring.

One thing that does seem to be exclusive to humans is homophobia.

"It's a very interesting question as to why anybody ever cares," Mann said. "There are different theories about why people find it threatening. Some think it disrupts male bonds, like you're not playing for the right team. The funny thing is that people say homosexuality is unnatural, that non-humans don't engage in homosexual behavior, but that's not true. Then they'll say it's base and animalistic."

Humans' resistance to the idea of homosexuality extends even to research on the behavior in animals. Scientists who study the topic are often accused of trying to forward an agenda, and their work can come under greater scrutiny than that of their colleagues who study other topics, Mann said

"It's kind of a shame because I think that probably is a reason why people don't look at it more," Mann said. "That's probably why we haven't gotten further. You would think we'd know more than we do by now."